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Liechtenstein offshore accounts no longer offer to U.S. taxpayers the bank secrecy protection for which they were famous for a very long time prior to 2008. In fact, after the Non-Prosecution Agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, after the passage of the 2012 tax law in Liechtenstein, and after […]
It is well-known that the IRS is in hot pursuit of U.S. taxpayers with undisclosed bank accounts in Mizrahi Bank. There have been a number of victories that the IRS has scored against Mizrahi Bank clients. The latest example of this is the case of Monajem Hakimijoo who plead guilty on February 13, 2014. According […]
Some time ago, in a joint statement before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs of the United States Senate for a hearing on “Offshore Tax Evasion: The Effort to Collect Unpaid Taxes on Billions in Offshore Accounts”, Deputy US Attorney General James M. Cole and Assistant Attorney General, Tax […]
As is commonly known, US taxpayers who file on a calendar year basis have a filing due date of April 15th. In general, if a tax is owed, it should be paid by the due date of your tax return, without regard to any extension of time for filing the return. Most US taxpayers who […]
If you have a corporation that you have liquidated, or plan to liquidate, you need to be aware of the requirements of the IRS Form 966. Form 966 (“Corporate Dissolution or Liquidation”) must be filed by corporations (including for corporations filing Form 1120, 1120-L, 1120-IC-DISC, 1120S, and farmer’s cooperatives) if they have adopted a resolution […]